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better at graduating more-prepared students while other institutions are better at graduating less-prepared students and that … 209 led to a more efficient sorting of minority students, explaining 18% of the graduation rate increase in our preferred … specification. Further, there appears to have been behavioral responses to Prop 209, by universities and/or students, that explain …
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This paper uses a game-theoretic model to analyze the disincentive effects of low-tuition policies on student effort. The model of parent and student responses to tuition subsidies is then calibrated using information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the High School and...
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. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility … students' perceptions about the types of jobs that would be offered to them conditional on their college major choices, we … relate these job attribute preferences to major choice. We find that students perceive jobs offered to humanities majors to …
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